Baum, L. Frank

A boy, a patchwork girl, and a glass cat go on a mission to find the ingredients for a charm which will restore some people turned to marble.

Dorothy Gale, swept by a raging sea storm into the fairy land of Ev, sets off on a magic carpet with an assortment of old friends and new, to rescue the Queen of Ev and her ten children from the wicked Nome King, who has turned Princess Ozma into an emerald grasshopper.

The adventures of a young girl from Kansas, her dog, and her friends--the Cowardly Lion, the Tin Woodman, and the Scarecrow--in the magical land of Oz.

In Ozma of Oz, Dorothy is sailing to Australia when a big storm washes her overboard. She survives by clinging to a chicken crate. Eventually she and a hen named Billina wash up on the magic shore of Ev where they meet the mechanical man Tik Tok. Dorothy and Billina are taken prisoner by the evil Nome King who has captured the royal family of Ev.

When Princess Ozma and all the magic of the Land of Oz are mysteriously stolen away, Dorothy and the other residents of Oz are determined to find their missing ruler and the thief responsible for her disappearance.